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Reply #2702 –
After testing the plug-in I discovered an inconvenience: I transfered a couple of m4b audiobooks with chapters using itunes (because only itunes preserves chapters). After transferring files with foo_dop the chapter informations is gone - the file appears as one big audio file which is quite inconvenient for long files.

Is there any chance (in the future) either
  • to ignore m4b files with chapters on updates or
  • to include chapters on updates.
I created the m4b files encoding cds with nero aac and using Chapter and Verse

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Reply #2703 –
Hey, thanks for developing this wonderful plugin! It's really useful to me. 

I have two questions for you though, or anyone who can answer me.

1. Can you somehow put "Podcasts" on your iPod Touch through foo_dop, or do I have to do it through iTunes (I rather not)?

2. Appearantly, some of my albums that have multiple artists, have multiple albums for each artist in the Albums View in my iPod Touch. I know about the metadata stuff in the options, but how would I script it to change the Album Artist to "various artists" if the same album has different artists on some of their tracks? Did anyone catch that?

I'm using a third generation iPod Touch, and I would be very glad if anyone could helpout.

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Reply #2704 –
Quote from: Ben Laserlove on
Hey, thanks for developing this wonderful plugin! It's really useful to me. 

I have two questions for you though, or anyone who can answer me.

1. Can you somehow put "Podcasts" on your iPod Touch through foo_dop, or do I have to do it through iTunes (I rather not)?

2. Appearantly, some of my albums that have multiple artists, have multiple albums for each artist in the Albums View in my iPod Touch. I know about the metadata stuff in the options, but how would I script it to change the Album Artist to "various artists" if the same album has different artists on some of their tracks? Did anyone catch that?

I'm using a third generation iPod Touch, and I would be very glad if anyone could helpout.


1. There is a component foo_podcatcher but I don't do podcasts so I have no idea if this is what you want.

2. I think you want to tag IPOD_COMPILATION with 1. Then compilations will be grouped as one album but I thought that is what the script in options is doing.

Both of those answers I believe have been covered above.

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Reply #2705 –
FYI, I loaded iPhone OS 3.1.3 and all seems fine. Played one song and resynced. Ringtones still intact. Hopefully a no issue for musicmusic.

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Reply #2706 –
One question I have (and is a major hurdle against my replacing iTunes with foobar2000 permanently) is how do you guys manage your album art?

Currently, I store album art on my local drive in as high resolution as I can, downscaling to 1000 pixels on the larger dimension if my image source is larger, and resize to 200 pixels (again, on the larger dimension) when I put files on my iPod. (I've determined that the displayed image on the iPod's screen approximately this size anyway, and since the transferred BMP is actually embedded in each file, this is the most size-optimal way to do this I've been able to figure out.)

Is there an easy way to accomplish this using foo_dop? Would it be in my interests to downscale my local images further, say 500 pixels on the longer dimension?

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Reply #2707 –
Quote from: Zarggg on
One question I have (and is a major hurdle against my replacing iTunes with foobar2000 permanently) is how do you guys manage your album art?

Currently, I store album art on my local drive in as high resolution as I can, downscaling to 1000 pixels on the larger dimension if my image source is larger, and resize to 200 pixels (again, on the larger dimension) when I put files on my iPod. (I've determined that the displayed image on the iPod's screen approximately this size anyway, and since the transferred BMP is actually embedded in each file, this is the most size-optimal way to do this I've been able to figure out.)

Is there an easy way to accomplish this using foo_dop? Would it be in my interests to downscale my local images further, say 500 pixels on the longer dimension?


I don't understand the question exactly and I don't know how album art is handled nowadays in iTunes but artwork is a major advantage of foo_dop. I understood that you use embedded artwork this is recognized by foobar and also by foo_dop. Resize is done automatically while transferring the songs. Just give it a try

-Chris

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Reply #2708 –
Quote from: Zarggg on
One question I have (and is a major hurdle against my replacing iTunes with foobar2000 permanently) is how do you guys manage your album art?

Currently, I store album art on my local drive in as high resolution as I can, downscaling to 1000 pixels on the larger dimension if my image source is larger, and resize to 200 pixels (again, on the larger dimension) when I put files on my iPod. (I've determined that the displayed image on the iPod's screen approximately this size anyway, and since the transferred BMP is actually embedded in each file, this is the most size-optimal way to do this I've been able to figure out.)

Is there an easy way to accomplish this using foo_dop? Would it be in my interests to downscale my local images further, say 500 pixels on the longer dimension?


Foo_dop handles the artwork fine. Mine are embedded I use Mp3tag to do it (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/). I also store the .jpg as "cover.jpg" in the same folder as the album and I think foo_dop has settings to pick these up if not embedded. I myself don't really care what size it is as long as it looks good. Some of mine are 200x200 and some up to 800x800 size really isn't an issue for me.

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Reply #2709 –
Quote from: Chris Norman on
I don't understand the question exactly... I understood that you use embedded artwork...

Hopefully this is more clear: I store cover.jpg/.png files in my local directories. When storing album art on an iPod, iTunes embeds the image into the headers of each individual file, then builds a database of "thumbnails" of smaller size.

Quote from: metalboy on
I myself don't really care what size it is as long as it looks good. Some of mine are 200x200 and some up to 800x800 size really isn't an issue for me.

The 800x800 size images is the issue I am trying to avoid. If I just used foo_dop to transfer tracks as I currently understand it, I would be wasting a lot of space just for art. That's why I always resize before putting the art through iTunes.

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Reply #2710 –
Quote from: Zarggg on
The 800x800 size images is the issue I am trying to avoid. If I just used foo_dop to transfer tracks as I currently understand it, I would be wasting a lot of space just for art. That's why I always resize before putting the art through iTunes.


Well I guess it depends on how much you are trying to save. If you saved 20 kb per song on an iPod with 4000 songs you are only saving 78 mbs. Which to me is not worth the hassle. Chris was saying foo_dop was resizing them, if so you don't have to worry about it. If you are intent on keeping the large artwork just keep it as say cover.jpg and resize one as folder.jpg and tell foo_dop to use them as the artwork problem solved.

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Reply #2711 –
Meh. The idea was to let foo_dop automate all this for me. As it stands, I already manually convert lossless files to AAC and resize album art before loading to the iPod. If I'd have to do it anyway, it seems like I wouldn't really gain any benefit.
 

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Reply #2712 –
Thanks for this useful application - it's a great way for me to use my iPod with foobar2k. I have two questions:

1) Transferring album compilations currently results in the tracks all appearing as separate albums (I guess it goes by the ARTIST name and notices they are all different. The ALBUMARTIST is 'Various Artists'). Is there a way to rectify this without me having to re-consider my compilation naming convention?

2) Any chance of a scrobbling feature when re-connecting to the computer?


Many thanks!

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Reply #2713 –
Quote from: David Heath on
1) Transferring album compilations currently results in the tracks all appearing as separate albums (I guess it goes by the ARTIST name and notices they are all different. The ALBUMARTIST is 'Various Artists'). Is there a way to rectify this without me having to re-consider my compilation naming convention?

Quoth the manual:
Quote
Compilation mapping

Specifies a title format script that determines whether a track is part of a compilation. The script should output 1 for compilations, and nothing otherwise.

The following does the trick for me:
Code: [Select]
$if($stricmp($meta(album artist),various artists),1,)

Quote
2) Any chance of a scrobbling feature when re-connecting to the computer?

Install foo_audioscrobbler; it'll scrobble the data as soon as you sync your iPod with foo_dop.
np: 4'33"

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Reply #2714 –
Quote from: Leak on
Quote
Compilation mapping

Specifies a title format script that determines whether a track is part of a compilation. The script should output 1 for compilations, and nothing otherwise.

The following does the trick for me:
Code: [Select]
$if($stricmp($meta(album artist),various artists),1,)


Mine should look like:

Code: [Select]
$if($stricmp($meta(ALBUMARTIST),Various Artists),1,)

But where should I enter that code?

Thanks for the notice about foo_dop - I didn't realise there was a checkbox which enabled scrobbling from portable devices.

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Reply #2715 –
Will it be possible to embed artwork into each individual file in a future release?

Currenty, artwork shows up on my itouch. But when I load the itouch library into foobar with foo_dop, none of the artwork is there. iTunes itself also does not pick up the artwork. Apparently, foo_dop only adds the artwork to the itouch library but not embedded into the files themselves.

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Reply #2716 –
Quote from: David Heath on
But where should I enter that code?

Take a very close look at the screenshot on the manual page that I linked to - it's hidden in plain view... *hint hint*
np: 4'33"

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Reply #2717 –
Quote from: Florian on
Quote from: Omitson on
Quote from: Florian on
Quote from: Omitson on
The scrobbles are not being imported from my iPod when I connect it.

What is displayed on the console in foobar2000 when you run 'File > iPod > Rewrite iPod database'?

iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: duplicate column name: rental_expired
iPod manager: Generate SQLite database completed in 0.8354065 s

OK, I think this is something for musicmusic (the foo_dop developer). I really don't know what this means


Any ideas?

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Reply #2718 –
Quote from: Omitson on
Any ideas?


So your normal plays from Foobar2000 are getting scrobbled and iPod is not? And it is enabled in the on the audioscrobbler preferences?

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Reply #2719 –
First of all, I want to thank you for this great component. I've been using it for years in combination with my ancient iPod mini.

I recently bought an iPod Classic 2009 160GB and I'm syncing it with my media lybrary using foobar 1.0 and foo_dop 0.6.6.4. This seems to go well, but when browsing the ipod using coverflow some of the coverarts where missing, although the coverarts appear in foobar. After inspecting the contents of the folder it appears that the coverart of the folders including a disc.jpg or cd.jpg are missing. When I remove the disc.jpg from the folder, remove the corresponding files from the iPod and then add them again, the cover does appear.

I scanned the last couple of pages of this topic wondering if this is a known problem, but I could'nt find anyone mentioning it. A solution is just simply deleting all the disc images, but I hope there is a somewhat less time consuming method...

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Reply #2720 –
Quote from: rasvaan on
First of all, I want to thank you for this great component. I've been using it for years in combination with my ancient iPod mini.

I recently bought an iPod Classic 2009 160GB and I'm syncing it with my media lybrary using foobar 1.0 and foo_dop 0.6.6.4. This seems to go well, but when browsing the ipod using coverflow some of the coverarts where missing, although the coverarts appear in foobar. After inspecting the contents of the folder it appears that the coverart of the folders including a disc.jpg or cd.jpg are missing. When I remove the disc.jpg from the folder, remove the corresponding files from the iPod and then add them again, the cover does appear.

I scanned the last couple of pages of this topic wondering if this is a known problem, but I could'nt find anyone mentioning it. A solution is just simply deleting all the disc images, but I hope there is a somewhat less time consuming method...


Did you check the source script for the artwork on the ipod preferences? Mine is working fine on iPhone with the source script blank but I only have one .jpg in there which is cover.jpg (on the files I don't have artwork embedded). Mostly mine are embedded though (using Mp3Tag to save them to the tags).

Edit: I also have the "Additionally use Foobar2000 built-in artwork reader checked.

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Reply #2722 –
Quote
Did you check the source script for the artwork on the ipod preferences? Mine is working fine on iPhone with the source script blank but I only have one .jpg in there which is cover.jpg (on the files I don't have artwork embedded). Mostly mine are embedded though (using Mp3Tag to save them to the tags).

Edit: I also have the "Additionally use Foobar2000 built-in artwork reader checked.


Add artwork to files send to iPod is checked (hehe, would be pretty stupid not to..)
Source script: front.jpg
Additionally use foobar 2000 built-in artwork reader is also checked

Should I change something to the source script? None of the files have embedded artwork, all of them use front.jpg. I'll try leaving the source script blanc.

Edit: I left the source script blanc, removed one of the albums without coverart from the iPod and added it again. Regretfully still no cover..

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Reply #2723 –
Quote from: rasvaan on
Should I change something to the source script? None of the files have embedded artwork, all of them use front.jpg. I'll try leaving the source script blanc.

I used
Code: [Select]
$directory_path($directory_path(%path%))\cover
and mine seems to pick it up fine, I know there are other variables. I found this topic: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=71054
it is for columns ui but should be the same. I myself would like to learn this script.